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Yolen, Jane

Pumpkin Baby

32 pp. | Key Porter | July, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-1-55470-141-4 $16.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Susan Mitchell. Beginning at age three and moving to age six, the narrator muses about stages of development. Meanwhile, grownup friends and relatives talk about pumpkin babies, cabbage babies, and stork babies; the story culminates in the birth of the little girl's baby brother. Simple, repetitive text reassures siblings-to-be that their seeds of doubt are normal. Doll-like illustrations create a cheery sense of make-believe.
Reviewer: Shoshana Flax

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